Une anthologie pour comprendre les Low Tech

This anthology gathers and presents a collection of 29 texts published between the early 1960s and the present day on appropriate technologies and low-tech, most of them unpublished in French or no longer available. It shows that there is a profound continuity between research into alternative technologies and direct applications of solar energy after the first oil shock, and current concerns about energy autonomy and self-sufficiency. The anthology is divided into four parts, dealing respectively with appropriate technologies and their history, low-tech design methods, direct applications of solar energy and alternative techniques for capturing and saving water in a context of growing drought. It is aimed at all those interested in low-tech and alternative energies, be they engineers, historians, economists, designers, DIY enthusiasts or the simply curious.

With texts by : Steve Baer, James T. Baldwin, Cédric Carles, Thomas Ortiz & Éric Dussert, Robert Chareyre, Farrington Daniels, Kris De Decker, Peter D. Dunn, Hassan Fathy, Paul-Jacques Grillo, Maxime Guillaume, Ivan Illich, Antoine Labord & Janus Motec, Richard Merrill & Thomas E. Gage, Organisation Pour l’Utilisation de la Rosée (OPUR), John Perlin & Ken Butti, Witold Rybszynski, Ernst F. Schumacher, Peter H. Stern, Mária Telkes & Stella Andrassy, Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA), Kelvin W. Willoughby, Langdon Winner, Bill Yanda & Rick Fisher.

Unpublished post-translations: Clément Gaillard and Marie Lejault Graphic design: Building Paris with Ludovica Filippi Cover design: Karl Nawrot

Proofreading: Stéphanie Geel